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Surface Rupture Comic FAQ:

So, the Surface Rupture comic got a lot of traction during the DVS 5 auction, and people had a few questions. To that end, I want to try and answer them as best I can here for anyone who didn't catch our answers on stream~

Q: How much did the comic sell for in the charity auction?
A: 600 whopping pounds (about $1020 Canadian, or $755 US).

Q: When is the public release?
A: We don't know, but we're working on it. The public release version will have a few changes compared to the DVS prototype print copy. These will mainly be a few minor formatting changes, and some corrections like applying a color layer that was missing, erasing a line that shouldn't have been there, etc. Small things, but things none the less.

Q: So will the body of the comic change for the public release?
A: No, the story will be the same with no textual alterations (except maybe a typo fix or two)

Q: What big changes will there be between versions?
A: The bonus content. The DVS exclusive version's additional content was made for people already familiar with the setting and also includes a little blurb from me about how the comic came to be in the first place. The public release is planned to have a bunch of that changed to make it more accessible for people who are reading something in the Korps setting for the first time.

Q: Will the public release be free?
A: Yes, the entirety of the comic will be freely available, digitally, before 2024. This project took six months and a lot of work to make happen so we're also working out a way for people to support that work financially, if they want to.

Q: Will you do another print run of the comic?
A: We're looking in to it :>

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TwopawTarnished-Silver
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Hey there, Lexichummer!

If there's ever a full reprint of the comic in press beyond the currently-unique prototype that was auctioned off during DVS Con 2023- including the Korps-related content that you've impressed will not beg trespass in the PDF digital release sometime later this year- and it won't break my budget, I and Frostbite would rather relish purchasing a copy of our own; probably two. If you know comic stuff, you'll dig that we prefer having each our own copies.

That said: if I'm not out of line in asking, may I ask if there is or remains any particular reason the Korps-related content that is present in the auctioned-off prototype will not be included in the PDF version? There's my comic fan heart bid to protest, knowing it will be 'incomplete'- again, no offense meant, as I don't know the reason, but that's my personal fourth-wall by 1st-person impact by Steeltown Hammer cybermallet- and as a new intake Korpsvillainess in Frostbite's guise I kind of want to know, or at least to see it. I mean, I kind of look at it as a learning experience, reference to purpose in the Task and a wonderful little bit of novelty for Frosty to not show the folks at Red Nails II.

I mean, they wouldn't believe her anyway; she doesn't show up in there her giantess-wolf enhancile form, 'cos she wouldn't fit through the front doors. Heck, she'd more likely crush the whole building if she tripped and fell onto it, Autocorrective Herovillainess Trainee be her shins.

And she and I would ask why, as I assume if there is a reason it's a sensible one. I've come to expect that from the Korpsfolk I've gotten to know. At least I'd like to think so.

-2Paw.

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Hey 2paw!

So, the actual comic content in terms of story will be the same in both versions, the back matter and additional non-story pages are what will be changing. I should say too that they won't be removing Korps content so much as changing it's focus and scope.

The main reason we wanted to have these changes is two-fold.

1 - to keep the DVS copy as an exclusive to the convention, and to the winner. I think in total there were only 9 copies of the DVS version printed of which each person chiefly involved now has a copy, and of course the auction winner too. It is ultimately, a prototype print copy and we wanted to make sure that whoever won the auction copy had a reason to hold on to it tight. There's only a handful like that and it's special in that it raised a bunch of money for charity.

2 - We were aware that the comic might be picked up by people new to the Korps universe and setting. While the DVS copy does have a primer on the Korps!verse in it, it wasn't particularly expansive because we knew that the people who would see it (DVS attendees) were all going to be familiar with the setting already. Indeed, the characters in it are already familiar to a lot of folks within the Korps community. The Public release version then is going to have a more thorough and in-depth explainer of the setting and characters so that people new to the universe have a better idea, and will hopefully be encouraged to go on to explore the many fantastic works written by the community <3

I can't speak too much about potential future print runs, other than we're looking in to it!

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Honestly, that's the kind of reasonable and excellent sensibility I've come to expect in my fellow workers of draught and creativity, before or after Frostbite brought back to the dorms at Downsview Gage her Triple Baconator and Poutine treats and met herself to the Great Task amongst the Korps.

Not removal, but compromise. Replacement borne in creative combobulation. That is how it should be, and if I may posit on behalf of Good Sir Siegel, you have done your due Super-diligence. I wish my good friend Rob Charpentier, who ran The Shining Knight and later on Comics and More near Greenwood and Danforth, before the constipant poopstain of an archmnemesis Cancer first took his cognition and then his life from the world, could've seen what I've done since his passing and among that what you've helped me do and I've done what I could in turn to merit the Great Task.

He believed in the Super, and in the Task, I know I can say on his behalf he would've approved of the Remit, the Overlord's Keen and the Great Task. He understood me and never stopped helping me understand myself, and he was one hell of a swell Comic Book Guy. He respected the Pull and the Suggestion, the Don't Touch Or the Main Man Severs Hands when someone got overhandsy with the product, but always told us what we held, and what it could do.

He always told me what it could do, and whenever I asked him why, Rob would smile his Kirby-Smile and say: "Because that's what you're going to do, Garth. And I know that because you've pulled out your sketchbook and pencils, showed me the Heart of the Universe and there you told me so."

Man had a Pulled Imagination Grenade and wasn't afraid to use it. I know Kraken and not a few local Korpsfolk have lived in Toronto for many years going back and it wasn't all that long ago that Rob passed on; he was running the second location of the store across on Danforth by the time I was in high school at Danforth Tech in the fall of 1991, and even by then I was drawing comic books as much as reading them.

https://joeshusterawards.com/2014/10/23/robert-joseph-charpentier-1960-2014-owner-of-torontos-comics-and-more/

Christ, I can't believe it's been almost ten years. The emotional inertia, coupled with rememory, shortens the tension of the delay line tacked between those points in spacetime, doesn't it? For I know if there's a comic store in Heaven, he's working there part time. Rest of that he's reading comics, or shooting the breeze with Kirby, Romita, Sr and Jr, Stan Lee, Sinnott, Cockrum, and all the stars in the Bullpen, who never missed a month, put laydown to board and inked it tight and fine.

Marie Severin, the first Marvel Woman got the whole Marvellous Goodbusiness tight and proper, she was Korps, I'm sure of it.

Not a drop wasted, and all men and women of letters put to print.

Fucking Marvelship, Excelsior-Class, good chummers.

-2Paw.

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